rear (v.) Copy link Outline A. Trans.I. To bring up or educate1. ēdŭco, 12. ēdūco, xi, ctum, 33. ălo, ălui, altum and ĭtum, 34. enutrio, 4II. To raiseB. Intrans. • rear (v.): A. Trans.: I. To bring up or educate: 1. ēdŭco, 1: the mistress r.s the girl with great care, hera puellam magna industria educat, Pl. Casin. prol. 44: the boys, thus born, thus r.'d, pueri, ita geniti, ita educati, Liv. 1, 4. 2. ēdūco, xi, ctum, 3: to beget and r. a son, filium procreare et educere, Cic. de Or. 2, 28, 124: I have r.'d him from a child, hunc eduxi a parvulo, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 23. 3. ălo, ălui, altum and ĭtum, 3: born and r.'d at Athens, Athenis natus altusque, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 36: to r. horses or dogs for hunting, aut equos alere aut canes ad venandum, Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 30: to r. animals for the sake of pleasure, animalia alere animi voluptatisque causa, Caes. B. G. 5, 12. 4. enutrio, 4: Mercurium ... Naides Idaeis enutrivere sub antris, Ov. Met. 4, 288. II. To raise: ēdūco, 3: to r. an altar on high, aram caelo e., Virg. Aen. 6, 178: a tower r.'d to heaven, turris sub astra educta, ib. 2, 461: v. to raise. B. Intrans.: to rise on the hind legs: Phr.: the horse r.s, tollit se arrectum quadrupes, Virg. Aen. 10, 892: equus priores pedes erigit, Liv. 8, 7: he made (the horse) r., exsultare cogebat, Nep. Eum. 5.